ECI Partners has agreed to sell Bounty for £70m (€97.6m) to Kaboose, the largest independent family-focused online media company in North America. Bounty also acts as a marketing and advertising platform in the UK, targeting new and expectant mothers. Through access with most UK-based hospitals and established relationships with brand owners, it says it reaches […]
Firm: RCP Advisors Fund: RCP Fund V Target: $250 million Amount Raised: almost $350 million Small market fund-of-funds investor RCP Advisors as early as this month could hold a $350 million final close on its annual fundraise, its fifth and largest such fund raised to date. The firm had earlier set a hard cap of […]
California Public Employees’ Retirement System is contemplating elevating infrastructure, timber, commodities and related inflation-hedging investments to an asset class, potentially freeing up another $1.9 billion for buyout shops backing such deals. The new allocation is not expected to siphon money from more traditional private equity funds. This month the CalPERS investment committee planned to hold […]
Ornis, a Paris-based provider of IT and telecoms services to business, has been sold by its venture capital backers to Euronext listed company Risc Group, an IT data protection provider.
A report by the former science minister Lord Sainsbury says the Government should set-up a nationwide fund to solve the early stage funding deficit. Tom Allchorne looks at the proposal, and the review in general, and finds that whilst VCs endorse it, there are reservations.
London-headquartered buyout firm Gresham Private Equity has bought UK toothpaste tube maker Betts Global from Permira, Royal Bank of Scotland and the Bank of Scotland for an enterprise value of £110m.
London-headquartered buyout firm Gresham Private Equity has bought UK toothpaste tube maker Betts Global from Permira, Royal Bank of Scotland and the Bank of Scotland for an enterprise value of £110m.
Fabory, a Netherlands-headquartered maker of nuts, bolts, nails and power tools has been sold by Dutch mid-market firm AAC Capital Partners to UK private equity house HgCapital for €345m in a secondary buyout transaction.
Ornis, a Paris-based provider of IT and telecoms services to business, has been sold by its venture capital backers to Euronext listed company Risc Group, an IT data protection provider.
New Jersey Direct Investment Fund aims to promote Garden State New Jersey may have lost The Sopranos this summer, but it gained a new investment tool aimed at boosting businesses in The Garden State. The state has committed $100 million to the New Jersey Direct Investment Fund (NJDIF), a $105 million fund of funds that […]